Approaching the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, designed by Bruce Kuwabara and his team at KPMB Architects, one immediately encounters an elevated cube cantilevered towards Queen’s Park with fritted-glass windows set back from the building’s elegant limestone facade.

Over a century’s worth of shifting environmental policy means that today, maintaining Canada’s forests is as important as cutting them down. Tree planting is an essential part of this maintenance, and each year thousands of young Canadians trek through rough conditions and remote areas to replant thousands of trees.

​Even on a sun-drenched South African day, Robben Island is a bleak, uninviting outpost – rocky, windswept, circled by leagues of forbidding ocean, with only the heights of Table Mountain rising in the distance as a reminder that a real world still exists, somewhere on the far horizon.